Award winning short story writer Claire Keegan launches new book

Join the launch of the new book by award winning story writer and former DCU writer in residence, Claire Keegan in a live online event on Monday 14 December at 8pm.

Internationally renowned as a teacher of creative writing, Claire Keegan will be interviewed by DCU’s Jean Philippe Imbert, Assistant Professor Comparative Literature and Sexuality Studies with the School of Applied Languages and Intercultural Studies.

The event was made possible thanks to the Alliance Française Dublin and the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris who are delighted to welcome Irish writer Claire Keegan for the launch of the French version of her latest novel "Ce Genre de Petites Choses". The original version "Small Little Things Like These" will be released in 2021 by her publishers at Faber.

Extremely talented, Claire’s first collection of short stories, Antarctica, was completed in 1998. It announced her as an exceptionally gifted and versatile writer of contemporary fiction, and she was awarded the Rooney Prize for Literature. Her second short-story collection, Walk the Blue Fields, was published to enormous critical acclaim in 2007 and won her the 2008 Edge Hill Prize for Short Stories. Foster, a short novel, was published in 2010 and won the Davy Byrnes Award, judged by Richard Ford. 

During this meeting supported by Literature Ireland, Claire will be joined by her editor Sabine Wespieser and her translator Jacqueline Odin.

Admission is free for the online book launch but booking is required here.